Browse games/Fast playing time
This is a list of fast playing games that, ideally, take less than 10 minutes (15 min tops).
Name | Description | Min Players | Max Players | Number of colors | Trios per color | Game Mechanics | Status |
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Apophis | A real-time co-op game of saving the world from an asteroid | 1 | 4 | 5 | 1 | Cooperative, Color powers | Complete |
Ascendancy | A turn-based game of tower building. | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Babylone | A simple and fast brain teaser for 2 players | 2 | 4 | 3 | Stacking | Complete | |
Black ICE | The 3HOUSE game of computer cracking | 2 | 5 | 3 | Discovering codes underneath opaque pyramids | Complete | |
Blockade | 3D race game | 2 | 6 | 5 | Roll-and-move | Complete | |
Bluetorch | A quick auction game for three players. | 3 | 3 | 0 | 3 Rainbow Stashes | Auction | Unknown |
Bowler Rink | Toss a die into the box containing stacks of pyramids. How many can you knock over without ejecting them from the arena? | 2 | 10 | 1 per player | 3 | Dexterity | Complete |
Breakthrough | Capture pieces as you move your pyramids across the board. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Caldera | The Volcano variant with the hole in the middle, tree collection, and power plays | 2 | 3 | 5 | 6 | Stacking, Set collection | Complete |
CarboniteDice | A solo variant of IceDice | 1 | 5 | 2 | Push your luck, Set building | Playtesting | |
The Closest Ghost | A simple game played with pieces of candy | 2 | 3 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Colonization | A game of space conquest mixing light strategy and luck. | 2 | 4 | 5 | 1 (2 for 3-4 players) | Stacking, Color powers | Complete |
Color Claim | Build stacks with your claimed color on top to score points. | 2 | 5 | 2 | Capturing | Complete | |
Color Wheel | Try to connect all same colored pyramids before time runs out! | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | Cooperative, Puzzle | Complete |
Coup | Take over a small country | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Crosswalk | 2 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Blocking | Complete | ||
Crystal Traders | Trade crystals with people from other worlds | 3 | 6 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
DNA | Mutate pieces in your gene pool | 2 | 4 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Depict | Can you get your friends to guess the secret word using only pyramids? | 2 | 10 | 3 | 5 | Unknown | Initial design |
Der Marsigelwettkampf | A prickly pyramid game | 2 | 13 | 1 per player | 1 | Stacking, Freeform board | Complete |
Dog Eat Dog | An abstract game of strategy and luck for 2 or more players | 2 | 8 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
E, the Game of Martian Chinese Checkers | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Edges | An abstract placement game played on the edges (not squares or points) of a grid representing the Martian canal network. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Egyptian Solitaire | A solitaire puzzle game combining Peg Solitaire with a Rubik's Cube. | 1 | 4 | 4 | 3 | Stacking, Elimination | Complete |
Fire-Ice-Slime | A very fast and simple, 2-player, 1 Treehouse game, similar to Rock-Scissors-Paper. | 2 | 5 | 1 | Color Powers | Complete | |
Folio | An abstract strategy game for two players inspired by Quarto | 2 | 4 | 2 | Unknown | Complete | |
Fuji-san | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | ||
Gemini | A quick game of luck and strategy | 2 | 4-6 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting | |
Geodeto | Planet Earth is full of beautiful and interesting places. | 2 | 6 | 6 | 1 | Unknown | Complete |
Give or Take | 2 | 10 | 1 | 1 per player (3 minimum) | Set collection, Trading | Complete | |
Gleebs and Grues | Absorb your enemies while trying not to be eaten by a grue. | 2 | 5 | 1 | Placement, Capturing | Complete | |
Green Hijinks | A luck-free variant of Pink Hijinks | 2 | 1 | 3 | Pattern formation | Complete | |
Gygès (Polish) | Gra strategiczna, gracze przemieszczają piramidy na szachownicy. | 2 | 1 | 1 | Przemieszczanie piramid | Unknown | |
Hivemind | A real-time cooperative game with no communication | 2 | 4 | 9 | 1 | Cooperative, Real-time, Communication limits | Complete |
Ice Tiddly Winks | A quick dexterity game with simultaneous play | 1 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 | Dexterity | Complete |
IceFrogs | Players jump their pyramids across the board in an attempt to get a piece into their opponent's start space. | 2 | 3 | 1 per player | 5 | Stacking, Jumping | Complete |
IceSickle | IceSickle is a bit similar to checkers, but was originally inspired by solitaire peg jumping games | 2 | 1 | 5 | Placement, Jumping | Complete | |
IceToids | Explore a board made of print-and-play cards. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 3 | Area control | Complete |
IceTowers | Control the most valuable towers | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 5 | Stacking pyramids, Turnless | Complete |
IceTowers (Polish) | Kontrola najcenniejszych wież | 2 | 4 | 1 na gracza | 5 | Czas rzeczywisty, Układanie w stosy | Complete |
Iceberg | Guess correctly and be rewarded | 2 | 4 | 5 | Guessing | Initial design | |
Icehouse Baseball | A baseball simulation. | 2 | 1 | 4 | Unknown | Initial design | |
Infiltrate | Build an army and fight your way through the enemy's lines. | 2 | 2 | 4 | Army building | Complete | |
Influence | A game of push and pull in which players play their pyramids onto a hex grid to exert influence on stones of three different colors. | 3 | 4 | 1 per player (approx) | 5 | Area majority | Complete |
Infobox | Help out the wiki by adding infoboxes | 2, 1 | 100 | 1 per player, 0 | 5 | MediaWiki, Keyboard | Unknown |
Invaders of Mars | Players take turns fleeing from a powerful alien menace bent on using them as fodder for breeding until only one player is left standing. | 2 | 4 | 1 per player + 1 | 5 for 2 players, 10 for 4 players | Capture | Complete |
Jinxx | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Landing Zone | Crash land your ship to get the diamonds | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 2 | Dexterity | Complete |
Launchpad 23 | The challenge: Be the first to build a complete and balanced 5 stage rocket! The problem: Rocket parts roll out of the factory on a random schedule and are often misrouted to other launchpads! | 2 | 4 | 5 | 2 | IceDice | Complete |
Lava Flows | A quick strategy game that rewards clever tactics and a sharp memory | 2 | 2 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Ley Lines of Mars | Place pyramids on the surface of Mars to claim mystic dominance | 2 | 2 | 5 | Placement | Playtesting | |
Limn | A Balderdash-style bluffing game | 4 | 10 | 4 | 5 | Unknown | Playtesting |
MadRobots | A rough initial design | 2 | 8 | 5 | 3 | Programmable Movement | Initial Design |
Magneto | It´s all about opposites. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Unknown | |
Martian 8-Ball | Five-handed Martian Coasters for two! | 2 | 5 | 1 | Race, Dynamic board | Complete | |
Martian Backgammon | A Martian take on Backgammon | 2 | 2 | 5 | Boardless | Complete | |
Martian Chaturanga | An ancient Indian game believed to be a predecessor of Chess enters the Icehouse world. | 2 | 2 | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Checkers | Pieces jump and immediately capture | 2 | 2 | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting | |
Martian Coasters | The Beverage-Coaster Treehouse Board Game | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 1 | Stacking, Dynamic board | Complete |
Martian Coasters (Polish) | Gra rozgrywająca się na podkładkach Martian Coasters | 2 | 6 | 1 na gracza | 1 | Podkładki, Rzuty kością | Complete |
Martian Life | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Complete | |
Martian Tic-Tac-Toe | Tic-Tac-Toe with Icehouse pieces | 2 | 2 | 3 | Placement | Complete | |
Nickel | Use strategy to form a line or L shape on a colorful, randomly-generated board | 2 | 5 | 2, 5 preferably | Placement, Perfect information, Random setup | Complete | |
Nomids | A fast and very easy game with a simple goal: get rid of all your pyramids first. First player with no 'mids wins! | 2 | 10 | 10 | 1 | Unknown | Complete |
Oshugo | A somewhat quick penny-flipping game | 2 | 2 | 1 | Tile flipping | Initial design | |
Override | A two-player game where pieces are individually owned but mutually controlled | 2 | 2 | 2 | 5 | Placement, Perfect information | Complete |
Petal Battle | Two groups of insects battle for control of a flower | 2 | 4 | 3 | Strategy, Turn bidding | Complete | |
PewPewDie | A player wields a juggernaut! | 2 | 0 | 0 | Rock-Paper-Scissors, Elimination | Complete | |
Pharaoh | Players roll dice to claim the title of the King of The Pyramids | 2 | 4 | 1 per player | 1 | King of the Mountain, Equipment/Dice | Complete |
Pink Hijinks | A tiny game of Pyramids | 2 | 1 | 3 | Pattern formation, Dice rolling | Complete | |
Powerhouse | Collect exactly five pyramids in one size but five different colors. | 2 | 5 | 5 | 3 | Semi-random draw | Complete |
Pungo | A simple abstract game of perfect information involving pyramid movement determined by a 6-sided die, but not in the way you might think. | 2 | 1 | 3 | Perfect information, Controlled roll | Complete | |
Push-Pull | A single-stash game for 2 or 4 designed for play with a Treehouse set. It is similar in some ways to Rock-Paper-Scissors and the Prisoner's Dilemma. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | Hidden decision/programming, Piece Movement/Race | Complete |
Pyramid Punch | A quick game of pyramid combat. | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Unknown |
Pyramid Shambo | Tournament-style Rock Paper Scissors (aka Roshambo), with pyramids used as scoring chips. | 2 | 10 | 1 per player | 1 | Unknown | Complete |
Pyramideto | Match your secret goal pattern. | 2 | 4 | 6 | 1 | Rearrange the pyramids | Unknown |
Pyramids in my pocket | A variation on Drip, in which a player tries to guess which pyramids the other has hidden in his pocket. | 2 | 3 | 2 | Stacking | Complete | |
RGB | In RGB, stacks of Icehouse pieces reproduce and try to kill each other's children | 2 | 4 | 5 | Chesslike | Complete | |
Robot Battle Arena | Robot battles. In an arena. OF DEATH. | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Direct conflict | Complete |
RockPaperPyramid | A multidimensional version of Rock Paper Scissors | 3 | 3 | 3 | Unknown | Complete | |
Skyscrapers | A free-form action and dexterity game for lively party fun. | 2 | 12 | 1+ | 1+ | Stacking, Dexterity | Initial design |
Solace | patience puzzle for one | 1 | 2 | 5 | Stacking, Set collection | Unknown | |
Solace II | Another patience puzzle for one | 1 | 3 | 5 | Stacking, Set collection | Unknown | |
Space Monkeys | Space monkeys have come to Earth and are trying to get home! | 2 | 2 | 1 per player | 5 | Unknown | Unknown |
Synapse-Ice (Polish) | Zapełnianie planszy piramidkami | 2 | 2 | 5 | Zapełnianie planszy | Complete | |
T-Minus | It's Not Rocket Science. | 2 | 6 | 1 per player | 3 | Unknown | Playtesting |
Tic Tac Loop | Tic Tac Toe on a changing board | 2 | 2 | 1 | Unknown | Complete | |
Torpedo | An Icehouse-style real-time space battle game. | 2 | 5 | 1 per player | 5 | Piece Placement | Complete |
Torpedo (French) | Chaque pièce est un navire. Ceux-ci sont tous placés sur l’aire de jeu en précipitation. Les petits navires lancent alors des torpilles, puis les moyens, et enfin les grands. Le joueur auquel il reste le plus d’encoches À ses navires À la fin de la partie est le vainqueur. | 2 | 5 | 1 par joueur | 5 | Placement de pièces (French), Placement de pièces | Complete |
Tour de Pyramide | a bicycle race simulation set in the French mountains | 1 | 6 | 5 to 10 | 1 to 5 | Unknown | Complete |
Tower Defense | Defend your headquarters | 2 | 5 | 1 | Treehouse | Unknown | |
Tree-Halma | Treehouse update to an older game | 2 | 4 | 1 per player + 1 | 1 | Jump, Block & move | Unknown |
Treehouse (Polish) | Gra oparta na kostce Treehouse | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | Rzuty kością, Dopasowanie do wzorca | Complete |
Troika | Tic-Tac-Toe in 3D | 2 | 6 | 1 | Unknown | Complete | |
Tugga War | Pull twelve pips into your goal | 2 | 1 | 5 | Board | Complete | |
Turning Points | Pyramids spin like interconnected gears as each new piece is added | 1 | 6 | 4 | 1 | Reactions | Complete |
Twin Win | A simple and quick pattern matching game with changing goals. | 2 | 3 | 5 | 1 | Stacking, Hidden goals | Complete |
Verticality | Build the tallest tower! | 1 | 5 | 10 | 3 | Dexterity, Tower building | Complete |
Volcano | a puzzle game inspired by the spewing eruptions of volcanoes | 2 | 3 | 10 | 3 | Stacking, Set collection, Eruption | Complete |
Xero-G | A quick, accessible game of spaceships and strategy | 2 | 1 | 4 | Perfect information | Complete | |
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